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New England Magazine, Vol. 23

An Illustrated Monthly; September, 1900-February, 1901 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from New England Magazine, Vol. 23: An Illustrated Monthly; September, 1900-February, 1901 The query, V'l'hy is the festival? May be answered by asking, Why is worcesterp - for it is no more singu lar that this inland town, half coun try, half city, Should have desired or been able to support such an enter prise for nearly half a century than that a great industrial emporium and at the same time one of the largest farming communities in New Eng land should have gathered about the wooded bluffs of fair Quinsigamond. Worcester has no discernible advan tages of situation. There is neither water power to tempt the manufac turer nor water courseto lure com merce. It is a railroad centre, to be sure; but that is an acquired distinc tion, and there are small towns on the same highway to the great West that apparently offer superior inducements to trade, manufactures and popula tion. Its accidental prominence as the county seat and the character of its people are the forces that have built-the city. A New England town with two centuries of history behind it is apt to be proud of its traiditions'and to think well of itself; and in this instance, if the policy of the village fathers was not always strikingly liberal and am bitions, it was at least enlightened and well grounded in honest public spirit and decent local pride. Energy, liberality, honesty and thrift have given the city its wonderfully diversi fied industries, its great manufactures and multitude of machine shops, its university, college, polytechnic school and academies, its hundred churches and missions, its eight valuable libra ries, its museums of art, antiquities and natural -history, its finely equipped hospitals, its 365 acres in public parks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Release date Australia
November 12th, 2018
Pages
728
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
683 Illustrations; Illustrations, black and white
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Imprint
Forgotten Books
Dimensions
152x229x37
ISBN-13
9780243459414
Product ID
26724408

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